My new M-1

Article about: here's my new purchase i won it off eBay for £13 along with another liner this is particularly interesting as its a late to post war shell with sewn on chin straps a WW2 westinghouse liner w

My new M-1

here's my new purchase i won it off eBay for £13 along with another liner

this is particularly interesting as its a late to post war shell with sewn on chin straps a WW2 westinghouse liner with a 76 dated cover all have been together for sometime & as a bonus on closer inspection of the liner headband i found a tag with the soldiers name & number

Re: My new M-1

Re: My new M-1

Nice helmet, You'll find many like this one. They re-used these helmets and liners after WWII up to the time they replaced this style with what they are using now. National Guard units got a lot of these hand me downs also. I wish I would have known more about them when I was younger as I had access to hundreds in a warehouse in the mid to late 70's at the Portland Air Base. I'm sure many were WWII vintage.

Re: My new M-1

by milmuseum

Nice helmet, You'll find many like this one. They re-used these helmets and liners after WWII up to the time they replaced this style with what they are using now. National Guard units got a lot of these hand me downs also. I wish I would have known more about them when I was younger as I had access to hundreds in a warehouse in the mid to late 70's at the Portland Air Base. I'm sure many were WWII vintage.

Burt

cheers mate Ive had a few like this with a mishmash of different eras but not one with sewn on chin straps normally they've been replaced with the 1960's onwards type straps.